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RIP Rust

• thayne 6y ago
  rust has enough momentum now it will probably survive. Although losing one of the biggest projects that uses it, will certainly be a be a heavy blow, and probably slow down development.
  • feanaro 6y ago
    There's no reason to think this will impact Rust at all. Rust is now spread far beyond Servo and Mozilla is no longer employing most of the Rust developers. This has been the case for several years, AFAIU.
    • Melchizedek 6y ago
      And big companies with a lot of money, such as Microsoft, seem to be starting to use Rust. If I was in a leadership position at Microsoft, I would be looking into hiring the Servo devs that just got fired.
    • thayne 6y ago
      The impact will be more because Servo is a big project that is pushing the boundaries of what is possible with rust, so language design, the standard library, and the ecosystem are influenced by what the problems that the server team runs into. For example, the url crate is largely driven by Servo's need for a standards-conforming url API.